I’m not sure why, but I had never really thought about where Marina Abramović lives — the living icon of contemporary performance art. Marina Abramović is a Serbian-American artist who radically transformed the understanding of the body, time, and endurance in art. From her early extreme performances to the legendary “The Artist Is Present” at…
The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center is a multicultural, multidisciplinary arts center in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), founded in 1996 by Yuko Nii. From the outside, it may resemble an antique shop, but the center is housed in a historic building — a French Second Empire–style architectural masterpiece built in 1867. History The Williamsburg Art…
Remember I wrote about the incredible gallery Salon 94, the one that showed Urs Fischer’s furniture? It turns out Salon 94’s founder — Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn — was previously part of the young art consortium LGDR, founded in 2021. History Each letter in LGDR stood for a founder’s last name, and the idea behind the…
The Vander Ende–Onderdonk House Museum is the oldest surviving Dutch colonial stone house in New York City. Here you can learn about the daily life of Dutch farmers who once owned the land that is now known as Bushwick. If you’ve already been almost everywhere and happen to be nearby, why not stop in? The…
The Paley Center for Media in New York City is a museum and cultural center in Manhattan dedicated to the history of television, radio, and modern media platforms. The center’s archive contains over 160,000 television and radio programs and commercials spanning more than 100 years of media history. The earliest television program in the museum’s…
The Museum of Street Art (MoSA) is a collection of graffiti art from 20 renowned urban artists located on the fire escape of the CitizenM New York Bowery Hotel in New York City. To access the museum, enter the hotel lobby and go up to the twentieth floor (“R”). Behind the door to the stairwell…
The Merchant’s House Museum in New York City is a historic 19th-century mansion where the family of a merchant Tredwell lived for nearly a century. The building has been preserved almost unchanged. Visiting the museum will give you a glimpse into the lives of wealthy citizens of the time and a feel for the atmosphere…
The Poster House in New York City is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters. It features authentic works of art with powerful messages. The museum is young (opened in 2019) and small, but very atmospheric. Fans of movie posters and advertising will especially appreciate it. History Poster House was founded…
The Metropolitan Opera of New York (or as locals call it, The Met) is the principal and most prestigious opera house in the United States, one of the world’s leading musical theaters. Although it has existed since 1883, The Met acquired its current building at Lincoln Center relatively recently, in 1966. But why is the…
Rockefeller Center is 19 buildings in the heart of Manhattan, a city within a city, as it was once called. It is one of the most recognizable building complexes in New York City, located in midtown Manhattan between 48th and 51st Streets. More than just an architectural ensemble, it is a cultural, business, and tourist…
